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A Feminist Companion to the PosthumanitiesPosthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire

A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities: Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire Chapter 3 Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire Patricia MacCormack While feminism has grappled with the disassembling of the majoritarian phallolo- gocentric subject, posthuman and transhuman theory have shown a problematic acceleration of certain tropes associated with historically dominant subjects, rather than offer material and ethical alternatives, using fetishisation and assimilation of alterity to further their phantasies of immortality rather than authentically chal- lenge configurations of life. However there are ways in which an ethics of posthu- man sexuality coming from a feminist history can be both accountable and avoid the perils of superficial posthumanism via certain instances of desire. This chapter will explore the trajectory of posthuman desire implemented through Continental Philosophy and end with a variety of configurations of desire beyond humanism, but also beyond the phallologically driven biotech fetishism of some posthuman- ism. The posthuman shows we can no longer be trustworthy of studies of the human, of humanism or even of the dispelling of the myth we were ever human. Posthuman sexuality in its primary repudiation of the object/subject sexual dialo- gue, reconstitutes desire not as between two, or subject and thing, but as affective (and thus ethical) force: “desire is constituted before the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Feminist Companion to the PosthumanitiesPosthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire

Editors: Åsberg, Cecilia; Braidotti, Rosi
MacCormack, Patricia
Springer Journals — May 18, 2018
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Chapter 3 Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire Patricia MacCormack While feminism has grappled with the disassembling of the majoritarian phallolo- gocentric subject, posthuman and transhuman theory have shown a problematic acceleration of certain tropes associated with historically dominant subjects, rather than offer material and ethical alternatives, using fetishisation and assimilation of alterity to further their phantasies of immortality rather than authentically chal- lenge configurations of life. However there are ways in which an ethics of posthu- man sexuality coming from a feminist history can be both accountable and avoid the perils of superficial posthumanism via certain instances of desire. This chapter will explore the trajectory of posthuman desire implemented through Continental Philosophy and end with a variety of configurations of desire beyond humanism, but also beyond the phallologically driven biotech fetishism of some posthuman- ism. The posthuman shows we can no longer be trustworthy of studies of the human, of humanism or even of the dispelling of the myth we were ever human. Posthuman sexuality in its primary repudiation of the object/subject sexual dialo- gue, reconstitutes desire not as between two, or subject and thing, but as affective (and thus ethical) force: “desire is constituted before the

Published: May 18, 2018

Keywords: Feminist Posthumanist; Posthumanist Theory; Guattari; Irigaray; Posthuman Condition

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